Quotes About Struggle

The economics of life is against the family.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I found peace through God but not until I had driven myself to the edge.

My parents found me very difficult to educate.

I come from an educated family, but we were poor.

I'm not an educated woman. What am I gonna do for the rest of my life? I'm an athlete... And now I have absolutely nothing.

Do your badges everyone tells me. Yeah, but badges wont get you a job. You could have the most educated coach sitting at home, you still have to be given the opportunity. And I know a lot of people arent getting those opportunities. Which is sad.

The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Going through cancer is bad enough, but the side effects of all the stuff that's supposed to make you better can sometimes be as difficult to deal with as the disease itself.

My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate.

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

My family didn't want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts.

I try to make my wife happy, but I know my efforts aren't enough.

I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was not true. I would get stuck, I would be in a room and someone would ask me for something and I didn't have it.

As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

I started getting RSI in my wrists and my elbow from playing really hard, so I started looping.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

I married Imran Khan when he was not winning elections.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.